Action iiiiii

Partnered with @MDES 2022 MARCIA HIGUCHI

So this action started by a friendly chat with Marcia. We were talking about filling the blanket for this action and we were helping each other out. After a long chat, we found that it would be interesting to pair up and do the action with each other. During our chat we talked about how food and tradition around food is not colonized like other things in our lives and we are attached to our traditional food. On the other hand, I wanted to do more action on the two concepts of “Caring” and “Connection”.

So, we decided to explore “Connection” and “Intuition” through the action of “Cooking” and “Dishing up”. We decided to take picture of whatever we eat for 4 days and send their photos to each other.

For me the whole documenting process was so interesting. It was like having a guest in our home. I wanted to share all the experience with her. Sometimes my family reminded me that have to take a picture for Marcia.

The day that we exchanged photos was really sentimental. We got so excited and emotional over watching each other’s food. Marcia texted me and we talked about our emotions. We found some similarities between them.

I had the photos of Marcia’s food and they were talking about a story more that the food itself. I decided to create a dish with papier-mâché and use the photos of food for its inner layer (Dish up).

When I created the bowl, I placed all pictures of the food inside it. But, I thought “Ok what is the point? How can I connect my food and my edible experience with that of Marcia?” so I thought about how food impact all our senses such as sight, touch, smell, taste and hearing. I went back to intuition that we had in our initial sentence. So, I thought about the 6th sense. How can I connect with Marcia though 6 senses?

I looked closer to Marcia’s food and mine. The colors, texture and smell got my attention. I used the spices and the ingredients of my food to show the texture, smell and visual perception of Marcia’s food. I placed the spices and ingredient over pieces of paper to give it the color, textile and smell and placed all the papers inside the bowl.

The bowl is now a mixture of me and Marcia’s food. It is a bowl for mixing our culture.

I also received a gift from Marcia. She did a great job of collaging my food and arranging them similar to Persian embroidery. She told me that I wanted to do embroidery with your food because I saw you did embroidery in your previous actions and also I wanted to connect with you through your culture. That was a great gift for me. I got so excited when I saw her work because she studied part of my culture and she greatly connected with my work as well.

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